Solaris installation

Dec 22, 2007,
Categories: solaris,unix,bugs

In what top scientists are calling “pretty gay”, Solaris can’t
handle disks that used to have non-solaris stuff on them without
being wiped first.

I thought only the windows installer borked if the partition table
looked weird, but no! The installer could not see the disk, and I
was dropped into a dtterm where I had to do dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 bs=1048576 and reboot.